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Princeton university researchers embedded piezoelectric material onto polymer as energy harvester
Researchers from Princeton University (USA) developed a scalable process for transferring crystalline piezoelectric smart nanothick ribbons of lead zirconate titanate (ceramic) from host substrates onto flexible silicone rubbers. Thus they created piezo-rubber chips. Silicone being biocompatible, this new electricity-harvesting stretchable devices could be implanted in the body. Authors believe that the excellent performance of the piezo-ribbon construction coupled with stretchable, biocompatible rubber could open up a host of exciting avenues in fundamental research and novel applications.
